Transnational Europe
Subtitle: promise, paradox, limits
By: [edited by] Joan DeBardeleben and Achim Hurrelmann
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230241688
Subjects: Politics and government; Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Boundaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism; Political aspects; Economic aspects
Description: "Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies."--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction / A. Hurrelmann and J. DeBardeleben; title: PART I TRANSNATIONALISM IN EUROPEAN STUDIES : CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES; title: Transnationalism and the Theory of European Integration : Political Science Perspectives / A. Hurrelmann; title: Transnationalism and the Political Sociology of European Transformation : Bringing People Back In / C. Rumford; title: PART II TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE : POLICY MAKING AND INTEREST MOBILIZATION; title: Transnationalism in European Governance and Policy Making /  I. Tömmel; title: The Emergence of a Public Sphere for the European Union : Prospects for Transnationalism through Mass Media Communication? /  P. Statham; title: Protest in the EU : a Path toward Democracy? /  D. Chabanet; title: European Integration and Transnational Labor Markets /  N. Lillie; title: East European Transformations and the Paradoxes of Transnationalization / D. Bohle; title: PART III TRANSNATIONAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND IDENTITIES; title: Historicizing the Nation : Transnational Approaches to the Recent European Past / J. Casteel; title: Integrating Migrants beyond the Nation-State? : The Paradoxical Effects of Including Newcomers in a European Social and Cultural Community / O. Schmidtke; title: Managing Ambivalence and Identity : Immigration Discourses and (Trans-)National Identities in the European Union /  R. Gould; title: Muslim Migration, Institutional Development, and the Geographic Imagination : the Aga Khan Development Network's Global Transnationalism /  K. H. Karim; title: The Social Lives of Borders : Political Economy at the Edge of the EU / A. Simonyi and J. Allina-Pisano; title: The Awkward Divide : Paradoxes of Transnationality at the Polish-Ukrainian Border / K. Szmagalska-Follis; title: Conclusion / J. DeBardeleben and A. Hurrelmann.